Why the Republican Party is doomed in two words: Orange County

"Rather than bringing the troops home after our Cold War triumph, Bush I and II went crusading for a New World Order to end tyranny in our world."

I first traveled to California in 1968 when I was a mere 17 years old. Back then, Southern California was largely rural, as you can see in the above video.

Orange County was considered the most right-wing place on the planet. Orange County was the home not just of Disneyland but of the John Birch Society, a small-government conservative group often derided by "neo" conservatives such as the radio host I like to call Marxist Levin.

The Birchers actually believed in the constitution and small government. That's why they were drummed out of the Republican Party. The party was eventually taken over by liberal internationalists posing as conservatives who promptly destroyed it as a national party.

Here's Pat Buchanan weighing in on the death of the "new majority" assembled for the GOP by Richard Nixon and strengthened by Ronald Reagan:

What killed the New Majority?

First, there was mass immigration, which brought in 40 to 50 million people, legal and illegal, poor and working class, and almost all from the Third World. The GOP agreed to the importation of a vast new constituency that is now kicking the GOP into an early grave.

When some implored the party in 1992 to secure the border and declare a “timeout” on legal immigration to assimilate the millions already here, the party establishment repudiated any such ideas.

“We are a nation of immigrants!” it huffed. Well, we sure are now. And when amnesty is granted to the 12 million illegals, as GOP senators are preparing to do, that should advance the death of the GOP as a national party by turning Colorado, Nevada and Arizona blue, and putting even Texas in play.

Pat goes on to add to the list the many wars started by the Bush family:

Fourth, rather than bringing the troops home after our Cold War triumph and telling our allies the free rides were over, Bush I and II went crusading for a “New World Order” to “end tyranny in our world.”

After three wars and half a dozen interventions, we are bankrupt at home and hated abroad. And Americans, sick of seeing their best and bravest brought home to Dover or being fitted at Walter Reed for prosthetic arms and legs, have twice voted for an anti-interventionist president

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The party's only hope is to return to the constitutional conservatism of Ron and Rand Paul. Instead, the neocons are pushing yet another Bush, Jeb. This is nuts. But this is the way they think.

Read Pat's entire piece and watch the video above about the effects immigration has had on California. Orange County and the rest of Southern California are now reliably Democratic due to immigration.

Then ask yourself why the Republican Party can no longer compete in the state from which both Nixon and Reagan emerged. The answer is obvious. And as Buchanan notes, after the next amnesty we can expect Texas to share the same fate.
ALSO: Do not make ignorant comments about the Birch Society without reading the above link debunking that untrue and scurrilous line pushed by liberals like Marxist Levin. Or you can read their home page here.

Pat Buchanan: Endless wars and endless immigration equal the end of the GOP.